Even if the corona pandemic has pushed climate change off the news – it is ongoing. Luisa Neubauer talks about it in her new podcast.
A total of 12 episodes of the “Climate Change Podcast” are planned Photo: Rolf Zoellner / image
“Above all, the climate crisis is a great loss,” says Luisa Neubauer. “A loss of security that stable ecosystems normally give. A loss of reliability. […] And a loss of freedom to grow old on an intact planet. “
Luisa Neubauer is the most famous face of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany. In her podcast “1.5 Grad”, which has been appearing every two weeks on Spotify since November 11, you don’t see exactly that – her famous face – and you have to concentrate fully on what Neubauer and the people she was speaking to are saying. And that’s exhausting, if you let it get to you, it can deprive you of a good mood or make you angry – which was already rare in the corona crisis. Because even if Corona is currently dominating the news and taking the attention of many people: The climate crisis is ongoing.
Neubauer mercilessly calls her listeners back to their consciousness. In conversation with the scientist Stefan Rahmstorf, for example, it is about tipping points, those “points of no return” which mark certain threshold values, after which processes continue and accelerate global warming – no matter what we humans do about it. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that no longer fit the scale because they have become so strong.
But Neubauer wouldn’t be a successful activist if she talked about facts and figures alone. “Power unfolds when we allow ourselves to feel,” she says in the second episode, quoting the legendary environmental activist, author and scientist Rachel Carson. But what if the dominant feeling is hopelessness in the face of the state of the world? Luisa Neubauer asks that too.
